Metra train hits man on bicycle on Milwaukee West Line

A train passes by Metra workers investigating the scene of fatal accident. A person was hit by an eastbound train around 7:00 a.m., near the Hanover Park Metra stop in Hanover Park.

A train passes by Metra workers investigating the scene of fatal accident. A person was hit by an eastbound train around 7:00 a.m., near the Hanover Park Metra stop in Hanover Park. (Stacey Wescott, Chicago Tribune)

A man riding a bike was struck and killed by an inbound Metra train this morning at the Hanover Park station on the Milwaukee District West line.

The man, in his 30s, was crossing from the outbound side to theinbound side when he was hit about 6:30 a.m. by train number 2208, which was scheduled to arrive at Union Station at 7:20 a.m., Metra said. The train was not scheduled to stop at the Hanover station, according to the agency.